Klinsmann's job on the line

FRANKFURT: Juergen Klinsmann's future as coach of Bayern Munich appeared in doubt on Thursday after his team's 4-0 away loss to Barcelona in the Champions League quarterfinals.

Klinsmann said he has no intention of stepping down, but many newspapers speculated that he was about to be fired with Bayern's defeat at the Camp Nou on Wednesday having been preceded by a 5-1 loss to Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga last week.

"Klinsi, that was it!" read the headline of the front page of Munich's Abendzeitung, while Bild said, "Klinsi will shortly be ousted," and Berlin Kurier's described the match as: "A first-class burial, a total dismantling, an outclassing, a declaration of bankruptcy."